Muhammad Hamza Zubaydi

Muhammad Hamza Zubaydi (1938-2 December 2005) was Prime Minister of Iraq from 1991 to 1993, succeeding Sa'dun Hammadi and preceding Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai.

Biography
Muhammad Hamza Zubaydi was born in 1938 to a Shia Muslim Arab family in Iraq, but he put his ethnicity before his sect of Islam and joined the Iraqi Regional Branch of the Ba'ath Party under Saddam Hussein. He helped in the March 1991 suppression of the uprising by Shi'ites in southern Iraq after the Gulf War, and he was appointed Prime Minister in September by Saddam. In September 1993 Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai replaced him and he became commander of the Central Euphrates Military District. Zubaydi was captured on 20 April 2003 by the United States during the Iraq War after retiring from the Revolutionary Command Council, and he died in prison in 2005.